2005
Sensation: Keeping in touch
Professors:
Theory: Nigel Whiteley
Workshop: Penezić & Rogina architects
Guest critics:
Masayo Ave
Žarko Paić
Helena Paver Njirić
Antonino Saggio
Time:
7–14 August 2005
Architecture and design for the digital age is often reductivist and in the legacy of movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) in which technological hardware was housed in a pure and featureless environment. Space Age purity and sterility may have given way to Digital Age anonymity and flexibility, but the results are often still guided by the values of a technological determinism - dating back at least to the 1920s and the First Machine Age - that equate technology with order and cleanliness. It has come to represent the separation of the brain and the body, and the denial of bodily sensation and experience.
In the digital age, we are far more aware of the importance of an holistic approach in which mind and body are, if not integrated, at least in continual but changing relationship. The theme of this year’s International Symposium, Sensation: Keeping in Touch, acknowledges the need to engage with all the senses in design for the digital age. Keeping in touch does not just imply communication through electronic media, simulacra and hyperreality, but a more literal touch, the pleasure of sensation, the excitement of tactilty, the sensuousness of surface, the sensuality of skin, the resonance of sound, the evocativeness of taste, and the seductiveness of synaesthesia.
Grožnjan Summer School of Architecture
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